Why is Peter Thiel Warning About the Antichrist? | Pivot

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

October 21, 2025

Duration

1h 16m

Channel

Pivot

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Kara and Scott discuss more schools saying no to Trump’s college “compact,” the No Kings protests, and the AWS outage. Then, Trump’s promise to slash Ozempic prices sends GLP-1 stocks tumbling. Plus, AI czar David Sacks picks a fight with Anthropic over AI regulation — and Peter Thiel warns of the Antichrist. We're going on tour! Get tickets at ⁠pivottour.com. Timestamps; 00:00 Intro 6:06 No Kings Protests 12:50 Colleges Push Back 22:17 Anthropic vs. The White House 27:09 Peter Thiel Warns of Antichrist 32:50 GLP-1 Price Reduction? 51:31 F5 Security Hack 58:48 Wins and Fails Producers: Lara Naaman Zoë Marcus Taylor Griffin Video Producer: Jim Mackil Additional Support from: Bradley Sylvester Rosemarie Ho Vox Media's Executive Producer of Podcasts: Nishat Kurwa Subscribe to Pivot on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pivot/id1073226719 Subscribe to Pivot on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4MU3RFGELZxPT9XHVwTNPR Follow us on Instagram and Threads at: https://www.instagram.com/pivotpodcastofficial/ Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@PIVOTPODCAST Send us your questions by calling us at 855-51-PIVOT, or email pivot@voxmedia.com

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Scott Galloway

  host

• Kara Swisher

  host

• Narrator

  other

• Bernie Sanders

  guest

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Pivot, featuring Scott Galloway and Kara Swisher, Why is Peter Thiel Warning About the Antichrist? | Pivot explores tech tycoons, Antichrist fears, and AI power collide in politics Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway range across U.S. politics, AI power, higher education, cyber security, and GLP‑1 weight‑loss drugs, tying them back to tech and power. They frame the massive No Kings anti‑authoritarian protests as a hopeful show of democratic resistance and contrast that with Trump’s juvenile AI‑generated response and clemency for George Santos. They dissect the Trump administration’s attempts to strong‑arm universities via funding conditions and to shape AI policy through loyalists like David Sacks, while critiquing Peter Thiel’s increasingly theocratic rhetoric about the ‘Antichrist’ and hostility to AI safety regulation. The episode closes with concerns about China‑linked cyberattacks, the physical and social costs of AI data centers, and the transformative potential of cheap, widely available GLP‑1 drugs.

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